Creepy Worlds #124

Frank Masters, a renowned photographer of submarine life, ventures into the coral seas off Tarawa and captures a massive clam shell—so large it dwarfs a house—only to witness it open and reveal an unexpected undersea city. Though stunned and questioning his own mind, he quickly snaps photos, trusting his training and the camera’s truth over his disbelief.

Hal, haunted by the memory of his parents vanishing into a hotel wall decades ago during a childhood vacation, returns to Plandome after decades of searching for answers. Now grown, he confronts the mysterious Green People, who claim to have taken his parents and now offer him a place among them. As they invite him to join them, Hal stands torn between reuniting with his lost family and staying in the world he knows.

Jason Steele, now the owner of a company built on a fatal flaw in a revolutionary rocket, faces a desperate race against time when his wife Lana falls deathly ill—only a cure exists on the distant planet Andregos. With Randolph Merritt set to pilot the very same flawed rocket to fame, Jason must convince him to let Lana aboard, knowing the journey could be her last.

Dr. George Bethel, urgently needed for a life-saving surgery, relies on Joe Cardwell, the sea taxi pilot, to navigate through a thick Atlantic fog to reach the mainland. As the journey unfolds, Bethel grows uneasy when Joe remains eerily silent, his distant gaze and lack of response hinting at something deeply unnatural. The storm-laden night and the pilot’s strange behavior create an atmosphere of mounting dread as they near their destination.

Gusty Larson, a college student, claims to have seen a mysterious flying saucer in the night sky, only to be ridiculed by his friends when he returns to campus. As he stays behind to wait for it to reappear, the saucer descends and beams him into its interior, where he is studied by alien scientists before being returned to Earth—unaware of what truly happened.

In "The Picture That Was Cursed!" from Creepy Worlds #124, David Fieldston takes over a film set haunted by the lingering presence of Lucy Manton, the murdered wife of the late director Mark Manton. As the camera rolls and the reels spin, David begins to suspect that the truth behind the film’s curse runs deeper than a simple ghost story.

Old Elihu Pokesworth, the relentless head of the Bureau of Inspection, takes it upon himself to personally inspect a suspiciously fast-tracked construction project by Glenn W. Armister and his lawyer, Hank Organza. When the building collapses under his scrutiny, the two men hide his body—only for a bewildered city employee, Gorman, to later claim he saw Pokesworth alive and well, vanishing into the sky.